Remote runways on remote islands

                                Remote runways on remote islands
 
                            With a runway               Without a runway
                    Johnston Atoll                                 Howland Island 
                              Niue                                                 Mangareva
                              Fais Island                                       Maupihaa
                              Orkney                                             Nama
                              Wallis and Futuna                            Deception
                              Pukarua
                              Fangatau
                              Reao
                              Maupiti
                              Enewetak
                              Rimatara 
                              Iwo Jima

Largest passenger plane on earth

                            Largest passenger plane on Earth


      Since my last post was about planes I decided to write another post about planes.
      Which is the largest plane on Earth? It's the Airbus 380
      What is its capacity? The maximum is 519 people.
      How fast can it go? It can go up to 945 km/h, 587mph at cruise altitude 1020 km/h, 634mph.
      But it doesn't Fly to remote islands.

Flying on a small plane around Tenerife

              Flying on a small plane around Tenerife

Now I am in La Laguna in the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
On Wednesday I went to camp, but my parents went on a plane ride around the island, on a small plane.

This is the plane they flew on. A 4 seater plane!

 

These are the plane controls

This is El Teide, the mountain in the island of Tenerife.

This is called Los Gigantes

Just about to land in the airport of Los Rodeos.

Iwo Jima

                               Iwo Jima             



 Population: only military 
 Native name:硫黄島
 Location: Pacific Ocean
 Area: 21 sq km
 Highest elevation: 160.9 meters 
 Country: Japan

   Cool fact: it has a military base and an airport

Alcalá de Henares archaeological museum

                                   Alcalá  de Henares archaeological

                            Museum


On Friday I went to Alcala de Henares (in Spain) archeology museum. I saw a lot of Greek         sculptures, pottery and Roman  mosaics. Here are some pictures I took:

A Greek statue

A Greek head.

Greek pottery

A Roman mosaic from Alcala de Henares

Another Roman mosaic from the same town

And a sculpture.

                                                                   The 
                                  End

Rimatara Island

                                                                   Rimatara island


In Rimatara there are 873 people living there. It is 8.6 sq km and it belongs to French Polynesia. Its highest elevation is 83 m and it has a new airport.

Solar eclipse in a remote island

            Solar eclipse in a remote island
     On March 20 2015 there is going to be a solar eclipse. One of the few places you can see the total eclipse is Faroe Islands.

Two astronomers asked people in the Faroe islands to take pictures during the month of March 2014 at 9:40 in the morning. The idea was to track the cloud coverage in preparation for the eclipse.
This is called citizen science. You can learn about this project here: http://astronomerswithoutborders.org/321-awb-blog/dark/gam-2014-blog/2139-solar-eclipse-education-in-the-faroe-islands.html